GEORGE W. COWGER was born in this township October 3, 1841, and is a son of Silas and Elizabeth S. (Bott) Cowger. His parents were early settlers of this township. During his boyhood, he attended school and worked on the farm alternately, and when only sixteen he split 384 white oak rails in . addition to other work. On November 16, 1864, be enlisted in Company A, Seventeenth Indiana Mounted Infantry. Ile took part in the battles of Selma, Ala., Macon, Ga., and remained with his company until he mustered out, when he resumed farm labor. In 1867, he purchased forty acres in Section 35, Range 4, also forty acres north of said range. On December 8, 1869, he married Mary Dunlap, born May 27, 1844, daughter of John and Charlotte (Breckenridge) Dunlap, of this county. To them have been born five children-George A., September 14, 1870 ; Elizabeth C., April 5, 1873; William H., August 22,1875; infant boy (deceased), February 27, 1877, and John S., February 27, 1878. Mr. Cowger has a good and well- improved farm. He is a Democrat, a member of the G. A. R., of which he ir, Chaplain, and, as is also his wife, a communicant of the Methodist Episcopal Church.

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